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...Now read these Family feud: A 20-year dispute over a multibillion-euro inheritance has pitted a descendant of the Fiat dynasty against her three children....
...A triptych by Ai Weiwei in the main hall depicts the Chinese artist dropping a Han Dynasty urn....
...Forbes puts the Mars family’s wealth at $94bn, estimating that it is America’s third-wealthiest dynasty after the Waltons and the Kochs....
...Symbolically, the sale of the Orioles reflects a wider shift in US sports ownership, as Wall Street titans take the reins from local dynasties....
...Yet the buffets, campy entertainment and shuffleboard have proved as irresistible as a siren’s song. The shares of the trio of big cruise operators have each about doubled so far in 2023....
...He compares its moment to the “golden era” in the US, likening the city’s Ambani family, owners of the conglomerate Reliance Industries and the UK toy store Hamleys, to the Rockefeller dynasty....
...The commodities trader would need to sweeten the deal, or at least offer a portion of it in cash, to win over the mining dynasty....
...More than 40mn players have signed up for the martial arts-themed game set in the medieval Song dynasty before it is due to hit mobile app stores on Friday....
...The Irving family is one of Canada’s most important business dynasties and has shown extensive philanthropic heft, including an $80mn donation to Dartmouth College in the US, which led to the creation of...
Our fascination with the scions of Hollywood dynasties has deep roots
...Shorter term, Buffet’s selldown may kill TSMC’s buzz. BYD shares fell by a quarter after Berkshire cut its stake in the Chinese electric-car maker last year, despite little change in fundamentals....
...reduce costs, the UK competition regulator said Microsoft’s acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard would harm competition for UK gamers, and the seventh-generation leader of a European banking dynasty...
...Most of the works come from the Château de Ferrières, east of Paris, designed by Joseph Paxton for Baron James Mayer de Rothschild — the son of the dynasty’s founder — and his wife (and niece) Betty in 1862...
...In 2012, Alexandre’s father David orchestrated a merger with the British merchant banking arm of the Rothschild dynasty — the one started by its original patriarch in 1810....
...Christoph Mohn, chair of Bertelsmann’s supervisory board and representative of the dynasty that owns the group, expressed “regret” over Dohle’s decision to leave, saying the company’s book division had “...
...Siegmund Warburg came from one of Germany’s venerable banking dynasties....
...The road is full of shops selling purportedly Qing dynasty antiques, and on lunar new year the queues for Man Mo Temple stretched late into the night....
...From original, binge-worthy (and ad-free) dramas at a click, to rapid taxi shuttles and a buffet of global cuisines delivered right to the doorstep — all at minimal expense....
...Beside it, a balance to that implied worldly glory (his knighthood came in 1993), was a black iron-glazed vase of the Northern Song dynasty, as unassuming and understated as the man himself....
...Busy as they may be, the power lies mostly in the hands of the Porsche-Piëch dynasties — VW’s controlling shareholder which hopes to turbo-charge Porsche into a luxury asset to rival brands such as Ferrari...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 7, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Watching the in-persons eat a buffet lunch provided by the company hosting the event was probably the low point....
...It is also a tale of dark money in politics, the power of dynasties, and the capacity of social media to launder reputations....
...Youngsters who reached far beyond their presale estimates at Phillips included Anna Weyant, recently represented through her partner Larry Gagosian’s gallery; her “Buffet II” (2021), a contemporary take...
...And so every company wants to transition to a world where you have a buffet. But not every company survives the buffet. Because if you try to eat too many things, you’re going to kill yourself.”...
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